Once I started looking, I found fifteen different sRGB profiles on my computer, and with the exception of Cinepaint and RawStudio, none of them was an exact match to any of the others.
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However, it came to my attention that different image editing software packages use different versions of the sRGB color space. When you open an untagged (no embedded profile) sRGB image, do you allow your editing software to assign the software's built-in sRGB profile? I always did, until recently. Each software has its own version of sRGB. Will they assign the same profile? Unfortunately, no.
Conclusion: We need color management to manage our sRGB profilesįifteen sRGB Profiles Compared Top to bottom: Gimp, Krita, Cinepaint, and ShowFoto, all offering to assign a built-in sRGB profile to an untagged image.Profile Differences and Practical Consequences.Table summary of the sRGB profile comparison.
Where the fifteen sRGB variants came from.This comparison is limited to variants of the original sRGB matrix profile, which should not be confused with the V4 lookup table "sRGB" variants, confusion over which could have been avoided altogether if had not decided to use "sRGB" as a sort of lump term to refer to several manifestly different profiles. Even though Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft proposed the sRGB color space as a way to eliminate color management in a consumer-oriented workflow, today you need color management just to manage the proliferation of sRGB profiles. On this page I explore the differences between the various sRGB profiles and I point out the practical digital darkroom consequences. I compared 15 matrix sRGB profiles and found quite a bit of variation from one sRGB profile to the next.
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